Violette's Vegan

Popular poker play Cyndy Violette is opening a vegan restaurant in Las Vegas, called Violette's Vegan and her Facebook posts have created a stir.

Violette posted this: "DEAR FACEBOOK FRIENDS, I'm asking for you to join in and please help... please read... Thank you :), good night
www.violettesvegan.com"

Visiting Violette's Vegan website finds a plea for all of her Facebook friends to help her open her restaurant. She needs money to finish the opening because:

"At this point, however, I have surpassed the time frame which the landlord finds reasonable for opening the restaurant. The pressure is on to meet a deadline and we have to open ASAP. It would be sad if we fell short now !"

She's asking for contributions of 20, 50, 100 dollars or ??? to help her make it happen. Read the full plea here.

Ed Miller mentioned Violette's plea on his Facebook page due to the controversy it's creating.

And popular poker forum TwoPlusTwo members are running with it - read the thread here.

You be the judge.